Congressman Paul Ryan

Paul Krugman took on Paul Ryan's budget plan on ABC's 'This Week'. "The plan's a fraud," he said on Sunday. "The plan is a big bunch of tax cuts, some specified spending cuts, basically for poor people, and then a huge magic asterisk which is ...  

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will speak Friday morning at the House Budget Committee in Washington. He was invited by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., who saw an op-ed the former Florida governor wrote about removing barriers to free ...  

(Please visit the site to view this media)Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) discusses efforts made to prevent the fiscal cliff from happening at the end of the year. "The president hasn't proposed a single solution [to the fiscal cliff] in any of his four budget submissions he sent to Congress," says Ryan....(read more)Forward this article via email:  Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.  

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) tells Breitbart News' Dana Loesch about the importance of the Wisconsin re-call election and how a victory for Scott Walker will have ramifications in the November Presidential election. 1 hour ago post a comment  

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), a potential vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney, had harsh words for President Barack Obama Tuesday evening, but told the crowd the nation could get back on the right track with the 2012 election.Read More... More on Barack Obama  

Paul Krugman has called Representative Paul Ryan’s (R., Wis.) budget “the most fraudulent in American history.” He and fellow critics take issue with the fact that Ryan promotes balancing tax cuts with the elimination of tax credits and deductions, but doesn’t specify which he would remove. Ryan and his staff contend that since a budget is an appropriations request — not a revenue plan — he can only suggest reforms to the Ways and Means...  

Republican efforts to cut the debt and put people back to work would help the United States economy avoid “European-style austerity,” House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on NBC’s Meet The Press yesterday. The House GOP budget seemingly embraces that model, calling for massive reductions in spending like those that have led to [...]  

Unless Congress acts, interest rates on federal student loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent in July. House Republicans have been blocking efforts to prevent the increase, saying they will only agree to do so if Democrats gut a preventive health care fund. The House Republican budget — authored by Budget Committee Chairman [...]  

JANESVILLE, Wisconsin — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) defended his budget’s major cuts to food stamps outside a town hall on Friday, telling ThinkProgress that “we think you have to get savings in some of these areas where you’ve had a huge increase in spending.” Food stamps were a hot topic at his town hall meetings [...]  

JANESVILLE, Wisconsin — “Every other country in the world calls it bribery. We call it campaign financing.” “That’s BS,” a constituent told Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) during a town hall Friday. “I don’t think you or any of the rest of the politicians want to fix” it, the Wisconsinite declared as the crowd roared with [...]  

Somebody's going to have to explain to me how, in practice, Ryan's zombie-eyed granny starving differs from the system that we had in place before anyone tried to reform it, the system that was in place before Obamacare, before Romneycare, before Hillaryc  

76 people, including actor Noah Wyle, were arrested yesterday during a protest in the Cannon House Office Building. The protest, organized by the group Americans with Disabilities for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), was focused on Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget, which makes deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending. Ryan’s proposal would cut federal Medicaid funding by [...]  

SIMI VALLEY, Cali. -- Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), a potential vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney, had harsh words for President Barack Obama Tuesday evening, but told the crowd the nation could get back on the right track with the 2012 election.  

It also puts Ryan squarely in the tradition of his mentor, Jack Kemp, who I admired tremendously but who also repeatedly sucked up to unions even when it wasn't politically necessary. On the other hand, both Davis-Bacon and PLAs add large ...  

The budget passed by the House last month, the one dreamed up by the zombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan, would cut the budget for the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration by $60 million  

AMERICA'S SMARTEST ECONOMIST, PAUL KRUGMAN, COINS THE PERFECT term for the Ryan 'Budget': "[O]nce you strip out Mr. Ryan’s “magic asterisks” — claims that he will somehow increase revenues and cut spending in ways that he refuses to specify — what you’re left with are plans that would increase, not reduce, federal debt." (According to Lady Alex, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have genuine affection for each other; I don't know how she can tell, but...  

MUSKEGO, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan received a warm welcome during his first meeting of two days of listening sessions in his southeastern Wisconsin district. About 300 people gave him a standing ovation at the beginning of the Muskego ...  

Recently, Congressman Paul Ryan has been getting a lot of press from news outlets across America. It is as if his office put out a feel good press release and editors everywhere jumped on the story as more than filler. Is the press helping make him the next GOP "rising star"?  

MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan will hold listening sessions around Wisconsin over the next couple of days. The schedule is as follows: Thursday, May 3 MUSKEGO: 9:00 - 10:15am, High Tides Banquet Hall, 17745 W. Janesville Road ELKHORN ...  

Ryan gets to say this with some confidence because he knows that the real powers in the Clan are never going to knuckle a Catholic politician over any issue that doesn't have to do with the unauthorized proximity of ladyparts.  

It was a beautifully sunny day, perfect temperature, a nice breeze swept over those 3,000 or more gathered, and, in fact, you couldn't ask for a better out doors experience. But beyond the wonderful weather was the upbeat enthusiasm bubbling up ...  

U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will be a featured speaker at the Texas Republican Party convention in June. The Wisconsin Republican is author of a plan to gradually transform Medicare into a voucher system in which future seniors would get a fixed amount to buy medical insurance. Party chairman Steve Munisteri said in statement Thursday that Ryan's "leadership on shrinking the ...  

Paul Ryan’s Whittington Lecture April 26, 2012 America’s Enduring Promise Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Chairman of the House Budget Committee The 2012 Whittington Lecture, Georgetown University April 26, 2012 Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Thank you so much for hosting this event. The challenges our country faces right now are complex and can be daunting, and the need for well-informed public discourse has rarely been greater. That...  

Two conservative bloggers - one Chicago's own Emily Zanotti - made national news this week after hitting the Internet with a teaser website about a budget hawk that makes these two swoon - Congressman Paul Ryan (WI-1). More conservative gals...  

I post this poem every year at tax season time. This year I’m dedicating it to Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Tea Party’s tax man in Congress, who actually seems to take the silly, satirical notions in this verse seriously. This one’s for you, Paul. Keep making the shade of Ayn Rand proud… A [...]  

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.,told a sold-out audience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that Republicans will win big in November and they will work with moderate Democrats, as President Ronald Reagan did, to end Washington gridlock. Hear his entire May 22, 2012 speech and q/a session on MPR News Presents.  

When Representative Paul Ryan released his proposed federal budget for 2013, among the first provisions to attract the attention of critics was its choice not to renew the current interest rate of loans for low-income college students. Democrats quickly seized the issue, publicizing the staggering fact that Americans currently have $1 trillion in student debt and politicizing the loan rates in question: 3.4 percent (the government’s current...  

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In the wake of its failure in Europe, Republicans must sense that being cheerleaders for austerity isn't a big winner in America. So what does Paul Ryan (R-WI) do, since his budget slashes tax rates on the wealthy and services for working people? He just pretends it doesn't. GREGORY: This question of austerity in Europe. They had failing economies, nearly depressed...  

House Budget Commitee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) says that his plan to slash government spending on programs for the poor while increasing defense spending and giving tax cuts to the wealthy would actually "prevent austerity." NBC's David Gregory on Sunday pointed out that the debate over whether slashing budgets would grow the economy was not just happening in Europe, but in the U.S. as well. "This question of austerity in Europe, they had...  

Via WSJ, The Class of 2012 will proudly walk the stage this weekend. I remember talking with some of these young people when they started college in September 2008, in the midst of a financial crisis. A common refrain I heard during those dark times was, "Thank goodness I'm not graduating this year." Four years later, many of those same students are graduating into a stagnant economy that is still not creating enough opportunities for them...  

Beware Rep. Paul Ryan's "vision." (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Republican wonder boy Rep. Paul Ryan, the guy who has a detailed plan to end Medicare, says there won't be any other health plan from the Republicans this year if the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act. In their 2010 “Pledge to America,” Republicans vowed to “repeal and replace” Obamacare if they gained power. Though the GOP-controlled House has voted to repeal the...  

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Jim Young/Reuters) Today, except for a couple of hypocrites worried about reelection, Senate Republicans joined their House brethren and voted to end Medicare as we know it. The only really interesting vote was on Rep. Paul Ryan's budget, the one that the House passed and that Mitt Romney has endorsed. It failed 58-41. Five Republicans (Scott Brown [MA], Susan Collins [ME], Dean Heller [NV], Rand Paul [KY...  

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy It can't be repeated enough: Republicans really don't care about debt or deficits. Case in point, Mittens gave a big speech on Tuesday in Iowa attacking the President over the national debt -- and yet, he wants to make it $2.6T larger in 10 years. And on Wednesday's Morning Joe, Scarborough put this very simple, direct question to Paul Ryan: SCARBOROUGH: You're talking...  

p>The Talk Shows May 20th, 2012 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; former White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Mark Warner, D-Va., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.THIS WEEK (ABC): Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Rep...  

It’s getting French Revolution-y out there. Mitt Romney is facing villagers with pitchforks, restless natives keep decapitating moderates like Dick Lugar and even new idols like Paul Ryan are being pushed toward the tumbrel. Lugar’s downfall is more 2010 Tea Party guillotining of long-time Republicans, but a search for ideological purity is so intense that [...]  

It sounded, at first, like the return of Compassionate Conservatism. When it comes to programs that serve the poorest Americans, “we need to meet our legal and moral obligations to lead,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) proclaimed on Monday before the House Budget Committee. “Are people getting out of poverty? We need to focus on that.” Read full article >>  

It appears Paul Ryan's constituents aren't buying his attempted reversal on his support of Ayn Rand's philosophy that Blue Texan wrote about here last month. The media never calls him out for any of his lies, so it's nice to at least see him getting an earful from the voters. Paul Ryan Challenged By Town Hall Constituents Over Previous Praise Of Ayn Rand: At a town hall meeting on Friday, Ryan was pressed by a constituent to explain this...  

Creepy is as creepy does, Paul Ryan (Jason Reed/Reuters) Mitt Romney surrogate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is criticizing the "Julia" interactive infographic released by the Obama campaign last week. The infographic shows how policies created and supported by President Obama's administration help women, cradle to grave. Ryan thinks the whole idea of government services is "creepy" and "demeaning." “It suggests that this woman can’t go anywhere in...  

Members of a group called "Faith in Public Life" held a news conference, expressing that Paul Ryan's budget plan does not line up with the teachings of Christ because it cuts social programs for the poor while cutting even more taxes for the wealthy.Contributor: fidlertenPublished: May 06, 2012  

It all started with a fantasy about noodling for catfish with Paul Ryan. At her office in Chicago, Emily Zanotti, 30, a conservative political consultant, was reading Monday's New York Times profile of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan that mentioned his love of hunting catfish with his bare hands. The image of Paul Ryan "standing half [...]  

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Ever since President George W. Bush used the phrase "compassionate conservatism" as a justification for his domestic policies that were heavier on spending, the political world has complacently allowed "compassion" to be conflated with "spending." Washington has injected trillions of dollars -- and a heck of a lot of good intent -- into programs designed to help the poor, the vulnerable, and the sick, while calls for an evaluation of how that...  

Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wis), chairman of the House budget committee, provoked some angry push back when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the US budget fiscally sound but also morally sound. In a CBN interview, Ryan said he draws inspiration from his Catholic faith. He argues that Catholic priority for caring for the poor should focus on helping folks move out of poverty. “…..don’t make people dependent on government so...  

By Elizabeth DiNovella, May 5, 2012 Ryan, chair of the Budget Committee and rising star in the GOP, is doing a series of town halls in his district and this one was in his hometown of Janesville.read more  

Forgive the personal nature of the column, but after a week of cooling off, I cannot walk away from the asinine letter that nearly 90 Georgetown professors, including some of my very favorite former teachers, wrote to U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan before his attention-getting April 26 speech on the Hoya Hilltop. The letter is arrogant, ignorant, puerile, nasty, and dishonest. Others such as George Weigel and William McGurn...  

At a listening session Friday, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., answered tough questions from constituents. But there’s one question he’s avoiding: Will he or won’t he run as a Republican vice presidential nominee? One constituent asked, "What do you think is a better job, vice president or treasury secretary?” Ryan responded, “I haven't given thought to that either. I'm not going to answer that. You think I'm going to answer that question...  

You thought pictures of Hillary Clinton texting or drinking it up in Colombia would be a big hit? How about shots of Paul Ryan and his boyish looks? “Hey Girl, it’s Paul Ryan” is the latest Tumblr site to poke fun at a political figure. This time it’s the House Budget Committee chairman and his — how should we say this — “boy next door”/“cute nerd” demeanor. (For the unaware, Tumblr is a blogging platform that allows users to seamlessly...  

Click here to view this media Congressman Paul Ryan likes to talk a good game, as he did during this speech at the Wisconsin Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend, where he decries the evils of reliance on government and talks about how he pulled himself up by his own bootstraps as a teen and into his early twenties. What Ryan conveniently omitted from his speech on this topic is the fact that his family relied on Social Security survivor...  

By Roger PilonIn today’s Washington Post, the paper’s Dana Milbank treats us to “A faith-based lesson for Paul Ryan.” He takes Ryan to task for his Georgetown University speech last Thursday defending the House Republican budget. Earlier, it seems, Ryan had told the Christian Broadcasting Network that his budget was crafted “using my Catholic faith” as inspiration. [...]Paul Ryan and His Catholic Critics is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato...  

Rep. Paul Ryan may have dreamy Robert Redford eyes, but the GOP budget wizard—and potential Romney running mate—has a soul as black as tar. Okay, maybe that’s overstating it. But he’s taken pretty much every anti-gay stance an elected official can: Ryan voted to constitutionally define marriage as between one man and one woman,  and for [...]  

 One of the more curious political phenomenon we've seen in recent days is the furious attempt by Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, to rewrite history and claim that he isn't actually an Ayn Rand acolyte.His denials are simply false, and are contradicted by statements he made at a gathering of Randians in 2005, a recording of which was released on Tuesday by the Atlas Society.Why would be make such a ridiculous claim? I...  

The New York Times this morning has a surprisingly positive profile of GOP leader Paul Ryan. Meanwhile, NYT columnist Paul Krugman and New York magazine are scathing in their criticism. Among Christians a lot of confusion remains, in part because Ryan (as I reported in WORLD last summer) has combined admirable budget analysis with troubling esteem [...]  

House Budget chairman Paul Ryan inhabits two, mutually exclusive spaces in Washington politics. He’s both a crusader for deficit reduction—the recipient of praise and accolades from the Beltway’s collection of deficit hawks—and a pure right-wing ideologue, whose budgets would gut the social safety net, slash taxes on the rich, and load the United States with trillions of dollars in debt. That he’s managed to do this without backlash from the...  

Jonathan Chait on Paul Ryan: >The Legendary Paul Ryan: The basic elements of Ryan’s plan are this: The tax code would be collapsed into two rates, with the top rate dropping to 25 percent, but eliminating unspecified tax deductions would keep tax revenues at the current level, as set by the Bush tax cuts. Medicare would remain untouched for those 55 years old and older, but those under would be given vouchers at a capped rate. Given that the...  

by Mike Kimel Ayn Rand v. Thomas Aquinas in Paul Ryan's Mind Think Progress piece on Paul Ryan. Think Progress has a post noting that though Paul Ryan used to go around telling people he got into politics because of Ayn Rand, and he required all his aides to read Atlas Shrugged, now he tells the National Review: “I reject her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts...  

For those of you who check the Spectacle blog pages during the day but don't revisit AmSpec's main page, I would like to alert you to an article posted on the main page mid-day today (Monday) reacting to the NY Times and "reporter" Johathan Weisman's simply terrible article about House Budget Committe Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). I hope you read it, and that you then understand (though readers of these pages certainly do already) why the NY...  

How nice of the New York Times to start their latest front-page Republican hit piece, this time against House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, by describing him as something like an anarchist, OCD, catfish-grabbing redneck cult leader, with other Republicans following his “marching orders” to destroy America’s entitlement systems. In case you weren’t sure of the laugh-out-loud bias of Times reporter Jonathan Weisman, get a load of this...  

You should read Jonathan Chait's entire epic evisceration of the cult of Paul Ryan, which reveals many things. Perhaps the most important is the way Ryan has come to understand how specificity creates the impression of wonkiness, commitment to facts, and seriousness about tackling tough challenges. When a smarmy pol like Eric Cantor tells you he's only concerned about the future of our country, you know he's full of it. But when Ryan tells...  

Tumblr isn’t a household name in politics. Yet. For those of you who don’t know what Tumblr is, it’s — basically — a new(ish) blogging platform that allows seamless sharing of videos, links, quotes and almost anything else you can find on the Internet. (Check out our music Tumblr — it’s called Sir Fix-A-Lot — for an example of what it looks like. SELF PROMOTION ALERT!) Read full article >>  

Tumblr isn’t a household name in politics. Yet. For those of you who don’t know what Tumblr is, it’s — basically — a new(ish) blogging platform that allows seamless sharing of videos, links, quotes and almost anything else you can find on the Internet. (Check out our music Tumblr — it’s called Sir Fix-A-Lot — for an example of what it looks like. SELF PROMOTION ALERT!) Read full article >>  

Last month, President Obama delivered a speech assailing the Republican budget crafted by Paul Ryan. The speech enraged conservatives, and the rage shows no sign of relenting. It has become the most commonly cited element in their indictment of him as running a dirty, vicious, dishonest reelection campaign.Charles Krauthammer fulminates: How to shake them from their lethargy? Fear again. Tell them, as Obama repeatedly does, that Paul Ryan’s...  

Poor Paul Ryan. He's been such a bad boy, he has to renounce Ayn Rand. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Paul Ryan, August 18, 2009: It doesn't surprise me that sales of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged have surged lately with the Obama administration coming in because it's that kind of thinking, that kind of writing, that is sorely needed right now. And I think a lot of people would observe that we are right now living in an Ayn Rand novel...  

Click here to view this media From this Friday evening's Real Time with Bill Maher's online Overtime segment, The Daily Caller's S.E. Cupp is asked from one of the viewers who wrote into the show if she believes Paul Ryan's budget "meets moral criteria." Color me not shocked that Cupp skated around the question and didn't really answer it, just as Ryan did in his response to the publication she was citing. Apparently Cupp was also unaware that...  

Nearly 90 Georgetown University faculty and administrators have called Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) to task, claiming that he's misusing Catholic social teaching in defending his budget because it hurts the poor. The group sent a letter to Rep. Ryan in advance of his appearance on the Catholic campus on Thursday morning to deliver a lecture. "Our problem with Rep. Ryan is that he claims his budget is based on Catholic social teaching," said Jesuit...  

There is something un-Christian about the Gospel According to Paul Ryan. So, at least, says Ryan’s Catholic Church. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody this month, Ryan, the author of the House Republican budget endorsed by Mitt Romney, said his program was crafted “using my Catholic faith” as inspiration. But the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was not about to bless that claim. Read full article...  

Now that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) has renounced Ayn Rand in the pages of National Review (a magazine that has long held the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged author in total contempt), it's time to figure out what other pols bought into Rand's core idea that capitalism is a moral system because it allows the individual to express oneself most fully. Politico rounds up seven (count 'em!), including such horrifying haters of humanity as Ronald...  

Today, Rep. Ryan delivered the Whittington Lecture at Georgetown University. The text is available here. Among other things, the lecture has an admirably civil and warm tone (I didn't hear the talk... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]  

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House budget committee, knew some Catholics were spoiling for a fight with him Thursday when he was scheduled to speak at Georgetown University, a Catholic institution. Nearly 90 faculty members and administrators sent him a letter expressing concerns with his recent comments that his proposed budget, which includes massive spending cuts to programs for the poor but not a single tax increase, was...  

This morning, in an interview on CNBC, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) was told by CNBC anchor that a recent poll shows Mitt Romney trailing Barack Obama among Catholics. Without hesitation, Ryan said “Leaders change polls. We don’t follow them.” ‘Nuf said. Ryan’s interview was primarily about pro-growth economic policy and his upcoming “America’s Enduring Promise” speech at Georgetown University. Ryan asked the simple and...  

This morning, in an interview on CNBC, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) was told by CNBC anchor that a recent poll shows Mitt Romney trailing Barack Obama among Catholics. Without hesitation, Ryan said "Leaders change polls. We don't follow them." 'Nuf said. Ryan's interview was primarily about pro-growth economic policy and his upcoming "America's Enduring Promise" speech at Georgetown University. Ryan asked the simple and...  

President Obama attacked Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget as “nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism.” That is not surprising. What is surprising is that the chairman of a major committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a similar scathing attack against Ryan, a faithful Catholic who says his budget work is informed and guided by the social teaching of the Church. Read full article >>  

Why are Republicans waging a war on the Church? Ever since boy genius Rep. Paul Ryan invoked his "Catholic faith" to justify his budget—you know, the one all the Republicans, including Mitt Romney, think is super awesome because it lets the rich get richer and the poor get poorer—he's been getting a lot of criticism for trying to hide behind Jesus. He got spanked by the Conference of Catholic Bishops, who said the proposed cuts in Ryan's...  

President Obama attacked Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget as “nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism.” That is not surprising. What is surprising is that the chairman of a major committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a similar scathing attack against Ryan, a faithful Catholic who says his budget work is informed and guided by the social teaching of the Church. Using Obama’s campaign rhetoric, Bishop Stephen Blaire, chairman...  

Speaking of Ryan, here’s my latest interview with the congressman. We discuss Ayn Rand, Thomas Aquinas, Jack Kemp, and the morality of entitlement reform. “I, like millions of young people in America, read Rand’s novels when I was young. I enjoyed them,” Ryan says. “They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School and Milton Friedman,” a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. “But it’s a...  

When the US Conference of Catholic Bishops declared war on the Obama administration on religious freedom grounds, the GOP was right there with them. Republicans cited the bishops' complaints as they blasted the administration's contraception mandate in health care reform, and gave the bishops a prominent platform on the Hill to air their grievances. When the Obama administration declined to award a new contract to the USCCB to serve clients of...  

Although Ryan did not invoke religion when he first introduced his budget proposal on March 20, in an interview last month with David Brody of Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, he described how his Catholic faith, particularly the principle ...  

A new study on potential Republican VP picks says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) received the most media coverage out of anyone else within the last month. The study, conducted by HighBeam Research found that Ryan was mentioned almost 27 percent of the time when veeps were discussed in the news media. Just behind Ryan is Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at almost 24 percent. In a distant third, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell at 11 percent. Out of the nine...  

If you missed yesterday's discussion with Rep. Paul Ryan and Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore, never fear: You can watch the event in its entirity right here. During the full discussion, which runs about 1 hour and 20 minutes, the panelists and our own R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. expanded on a symposium in the newly unveiled May issue of The American Spectator, which makes the case that choice -- returning to citizens the...  

enlargeWrap him in a flag; call him Saint.Praise Jesus and pass the awesome sauce. Paul Ryan's going to be the next Republican Saint, wrapped in a flag and waving down at all of us who are too stupid to understand the complex thinking and amazing nuance of St Paul's brain. Thank you, Jonathan Chait, for this awesome NYMag article telling us how to count the ways Paul Ryan is the Great American Hero. What would I have ever done without being...  

Have a little Paul Ryan with your coffee and cornflakes this morning. The American Spectator is proud to partner with the Heritage Foundation to host a discussion on choice in public policy, featuring Rep. Ryan and Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore. Festivities will be streamed live on the Interwebs over at the Heritage event page. Please join us at 8:30 a.m. EST! The discussion, moderated by our own R. Emmett Tyrrell...  

GOP leaders are advancing the House Republican budget and its proposed changes to Medicare despite opposition in the Democratic-led Senate by using used a relatively obscure procedural move -- tucking it alongside an unrelated bill that would allow the importation of trophy polar bears.  

As budget priorities have become a central focus in the 2012 election, Christian politicians and leaders have engaged in a debate over how to apply biblical principles to government budgets. The recently passed House Republican budget, the brainchild of Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), has become a central focus in this debate. Many politically liberal Christians argue it is not biblical due to cuts in programs for the poor.  

Daniel Henninger quotes Paul Ryan's explanation of how Catholic social teaching influenced his budget proposal: "A person's faith is central to how they conduct themselves in public and in private.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]  

(John Hinderaker) I met Paul Ryan for the first time today at a lunch meeting. I would have said that my opinion of Ryan couldn’t get much higher, but it did. He was even more impressive in person than I expected: funny and passionate as well as superbly knowledgeable about fiscal issues. Ryan is a first-principles conservative, who draws a straight line from the Founding and the Declaration of Independence to our  

House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says his Catholic faith helped shape the Republican budget plan by stressing local control and concern for the poor, according to an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network released Tuesday. “A person’s faith...  

Good news, everyone. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget isn't about hating poor people; it's about his deeply held Catholic convictions: Paul Ryan: A person’s faith is central to how they conduct themselves in public and in private. So to me, using my Catholic faith, we call it the social magisterium, which is how do you apply the doctrine of your teaching into your everyday life as a lay person? To me, the principle of subsidiarity, which is really...  

Rep. Paul Ryan on the Today Show. Rep. Paul Ryan went on The Today Show this morning. The news that most of the press paid attention to is whether he's thinking about getting Mitt Romney's VP nod and his trying to pick a school-yard fight with President Obama. The really remarkable part of his appearance is this: “Do you acknowledge poor people will suffer under this budget?” [Ann] Curry asked Ryan. “No,” Ryan responded… Which is, by any...  

Paul Ryan's budget has become a rallying cry for Democrats, and President Obama's re-election in particular. Republicans have long expressed an antipathy for the general concept of government services, but these were often expressed in the abstract or lone exceptions, with the party generally focusing on the starve-the-beast philosophy of reducing taxes so that government outlays would eventually have to be reduced. Ryan's budget gets that...  

Rep. Paul Ryan would love to tell you about his secret Democratic supporters. But then he'd have to kill you. (Jason Reed/Reuters) Hahahahaha: House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan told reporters in New York today that a dozen elected Democrats secretly support his plan to cut entitlement spending and privatize some benefits — but he wouldn't name "because I don't' want to get them in trouble." [...] "There are a number of democrats but I don’t...  

An interesting cult has grown up around Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, writes Paul Krugman. Self-proclaimed centrists have elevated him into an icon of fiscal responsibility, and even now can't seem to let go of their fantasy.  

One of the big criticisms of Paul Ryan's budget plan is that he's eager to specify how much he'd lower tax rates, but not so eager to explain which loopholes and deductions he'd close in order to keep everything revenue neutral. He just casually fobs that off on the Ways and Means Committee. Philip Klein wishes that his fellow conservative were more forthcoming: I think it's a fair criticism of Rep. Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney that the tax...  

Paul Ryan has a new defense of his budget. It’s not radical, because it increases spending. We propose to increase annual federal spending from $3.6 trillion a year to $4.9 trillion over the ten year period, instead of the president’s $5.5 trillion,” elaborated Ryan. “Apparently the difference of that makes us social Darwinists? This line is rapidly becoming a Republican talking point, as evidence by Karl Rove’s repetition of it today. This...  

THE ISSUE: Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has offered a budget plan with two separate pieces – spending cuts and tax overhaul – that passed the House 228-191 on March 29. Most attention has focused on the spending cuts to Medicare and other federal programs. Pia Lopez and Ben Boychuk  

I know, it's Donald Trump.  But as annoying as he is, he does matter - kind of.  He has a megaphone.  He abuses it.  A lot.  But that doesn't mean he doesn't have it.  It's embarrassing for the Republicans to have one of their prominent figures dissing them publicly.  And it only reinforces the message that the Paul Ryan budget (he's the Republican chairman of the US House Budget Committee, and the GOP's top "thinker" on budget issues) is too...  

Click here to view this media House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday refused to define "rich" because the wealthiest Americans were "job creators," and accused President Barack Obama of "verbal tantrums" for calling his proposed budget "thinly veiled social Darwinism." During a speech in Washington last week, Obama blasted Republicans for proposing "more than a trillion dollars in tax giveaways for people making more than...  

Paul Krugman fired back at Rep. Paul Ryan after the influential Republican laughed off the New York Times columnist's criticisms by saying, "I've always figured I've got three certainties in my life: Death, taxes and attacks from Paul Krugman."  

Editors' note: Mother Jones illustrator Zina Saunders creates editorial animations riffing on the political news and current events of the week. In this week's animation, Mitt Romney woos Paul Ryan with a rendition of Judy Garland's "You Made Me Love You" from the film "Broadway Melody." What else is a flip-flopping Republican candidate to do when he needs some right-wing credentials? The animation, as always, was written, animated, and acted...  

When we did our inaugural rankings of the ten men and women most likely to wind up as former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate this fall, we had Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan ranked 10th. Read full article >>  

On CNN State of the Union today, House Republican Budget Chairman Paul Ryan falsely claimed the House Republican budget — that would end Medicare and raise seniors’ health care costs, while protecting tax breaks for the ultra wealthy — “reflects the emerging bipartisan consensus.” In reality, the House Republican Budget authored by Paul Ryan received no Democratic support and faced bipartisan opposition in the House. His plan has been...  

Paul Krugman hammers colleague David Brooks today, writing about unnamed commentators "pretending to be moderates or at any rate only moderate conservatives" praising Paul Ryan and criticizing Obama for being mean to him, which Brooks did this morning. Ryan proposes tax cuts that would cost $4.6 trillion over the next decade relative to current policy — that is,...  

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget proposal. The plan’s pleased author didn’t mince words. “We are bearing witness to history this week,” Ryan said. But my thoughts kept returning to something Ryan said five months ago. Read full article >>  

This is a Commentary On Budget and Spending Commentary- Paul Ryan Offers a Budget for Grown-UpsBy Ernest Istook More House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has proposed a budget for grown-ups. Washington’s big spenders have responded with the tired clichés we expect from defenders of big government: "Pulling the rug out from under seniors,” says Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. “Waging war on American workers,” says Rep. Xavier Becerra, D...  

By a mostly party-line vote, the House of Representatives approved Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” budget resolution today by a count of 228-191, slashing trillions of dollars in federal spending over the next decade, but enflaming Congressional Democrats for proposing controversial reforms to programs like...  

Also, according to Paul Ryan and the G.O.P., this picture is right-side up Paul Ryan continues to invert reality, describing his Medicare-ending budget plan as a legislative Robin Hood: With respect to the wealthy, we're saying, "Stop subsidizing the wealthy." Actually, his budget does the exact opposite. It would cut the top tax rate to 25 percent, the lowest level since Hoover, creating a windfall for the wealthy. Ryan claims his plan...  

Rep. Paul Ryan didn't mean to suggest ... Republican Rep. Paul Ryan is walking back his recent claim that U.S. military leaders are liars: “I really misspoke,” Ryan said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I didn’t mean to make that kind of an impression. So, I was clumsy in how I was describing the point I was trying to make.” [...] “What I was attempting to say is, President Obama put out his budget number for the Pentagon first, $500 billion...  

With his speech to news editors and executives this week, President Obama has made it clear that he plans to run a starkly ideological campaign, contrasting his vision for the future of the country with that of his Republican opponents. And, he plans to make the Republican budget, written by rising GOP star Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and embraced by presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, exhibit one in that contrast. It would be...  

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Click here to view this media The Obama administration is considering the release of oil from the U.S. strategic reserves, and Little Paul Ryan was of course dismissive of the idea on This Week with George Stephanopoulos today: Rep. Paul Ryan said this morning on “This Week” that the idea of releasing oil from strategic reserves to drive down domestic gas prices was "political pixie dust in an election year.” “I call it the political pixie...  

Now that Romney's essentially sewn up the nomination, it's time to discuss who should be the VP selection. The list includes:Marco Rubio: A good choice for several reasons: he's good looking, a conservative and he would help with the hispanic vote (he's Cuban). But...his real politics are unknown and this won't help. Chris Christie: The thought of him debating Biden gives me a woody. Biden would  

President Obama was hypercritical of Paul Ryan’s budget today, claiming that it is “thinly veiled social Darwinism.” We decided to take another look at Rep. Ryan’s budget and compare it against the President’s plan to tax his way out of a spending hole. President Obama's Plan Paul Ryan's Budget President Obama claimed in his speech today that the Ryan Budget, “Would increase health care costs and shift the burden to America's seniors.” The...  

What? Monday morning, crowds gathered near the Westin Hotel, 70 Yorktown, to protest a budget proposed by U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who was in town for a fundraising luncheon at the hotel that morning. They represented groups like Citizen ...  

Last week an interesting item showed up on Queerty. It seemed that Gap, Inc., a longtime friend to the LGBT community, was hosting a fundraising breakfast for anti-gay Congressman Paul Ryan. Ryan is best known for his proposed federal budget ...  

MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan was in Milwaukee Monday, April 9th discussing his controversial budget plan to slash federal spending that will be a centerpiece of the debate for the White House in 2012. Republicans say the Ryan ...  

WASHINGTON -- Representative Paul Ryan unveiled his endorsement of Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination Friday, four days ahead of the primary in Ryan’s state and a week after Romney threw his support behind the House budget ...  

The pejorative term “Cafeteria Catholic” is too often used to describe liberal Catholics who stray from the Church’s path; but what of conservative Catholics who do the same? Recently, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his budget plan, which ...  

The Church calls us to offer them as leaven to be worked into the loaf of human culture The principles in Catholic Social Doctrine require the exercise of prudential judgment in their application. Agree or disagree with Congressman Ryan's exercise of his ...  

MUSKEGO, Wis. (WTW) — Many constituents in Congressman Paul Ryan's district said Thursday he would make a great vice presidential candidate if he gets tapped, but that he'd make more of a difference staying put and working on federal budget issues.  

If the next president is Republican, he will enact the Paul Ryan Plan. Mitt Romney has already stated that he would look forward to signing this into law. According to www.FactCheck.org, the Paul Ryan Plan will affect everyone who is now age 55 and younger.  

Should we in Yakima and central Washington be worried? Only if your well being is connected to the well being of Yakima and central Washington. According to Washington state Employment Security economist Ken Maseck, 1 in 4 local jobs are directly tied to agriculture.  

Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, rammed a budget through his committee that will spare defense, but slash badly needed social and entitlement programs. The House GOP plan, pushed by Congressman Paul Ryan, passed 218 to 199 ...  

Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, rammed a budget through his committee that will spare defense, but slash badly needed social and entitlement programs. The House GOP plan, pushed by Congressman Paul Ryan, passed 218 to 199 ...  

The first Reuters Vice Presidential Poll was released Friday today. Finishing high on the potential VP survey is Rock County's own Paul Ryan  

MOUNT PLEASANT — You’ve heard Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan say we as a nation are in debt; we need to cut spending. But on Friday at a listening session in Mount Pleasant, protesters were attacking him over religion. Ryan’s budget ...  

Kevin Drum of Mother Jones and Ezra Klein of the Washington Post appropriately have criticized Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, who represents southeastern Wisconsin in the U.S. House, for not specifying how his budget plan recuperates revenues under ...  

Now that The New York Times pay wall is live, you only get 10 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories that can make your clicks count.  

By Chris Robling - April 27, 2012 Dear former professors and others who signed the “Georgetown Letter” to U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Your note brings sadness. I expect more from each and from all of you. I...  

ELKHORN- U.S. Representative Paul Ryan is viral because a new internet sensation. Within the last few days dozens of pictures have popped up with clever economy-related tag lines. There's a whole page dedicated to them, posted to the "Hey girl, it's Paul ...  

Rep. Paul Ryan, a Catholic, has taken heat from various members of the Catholic Church on his proposed budget. He answers those critics here in an exclusive interview with S.E. Cupp for the June issue of Townhall Magazine. When GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of ...  

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) had some harsh words for Barack Obama Wednesday. During an interview with Fox News's Bret Baier, Ryan said, "Everything the president says about budgets, about our numbers, we’re used to him telling things that ...  

We were as surprised as everyone to hear what U.S. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin told constituents at a meeting on May 4. “If you’re a bank and you want to operate like some nonbank entity like a hedge fund, then don’t be a bank ...  

Catholic bishops are lining up to protest against Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget as he gives a guest lecture today at Georgetown University. Catholics United will stage a protest and 59 Catholic leaders and theologians that took issue with...  

and the guy that thinks Guam is going to tip over. Instead, the President took to the airwaves today to lambast Congressman Paul Ryan’s ‘Path to Prosperity’ budget, which passed the House several days ago by a count of 228-191. Ryan’s plan slashes ...  

Paul Krugman: >Mood Music: All he does is make scary noises about the deficit, with mood music, with organ music in the background about how ominous it is, and then propose a plan that would in fact increase the deficit.  

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) responded Tuesday to Barack Obama calling his budget proposal "a radical vision on our country." Talking to Fox News after the President spoke at the Associated Press's annual luncheon, Ryan said, "I seem to have ...  

$770 billion from education, environmental, transportation, and other infrastructure cuts, as well as lower wages and benefits for federal workers when they need more, not less; $480 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, besides another $1 trillion from ...  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The senior U.S. House Republican on budget matters said on Sunday he "misspoke" when he caused a stir last week by saying the Pentagon budget for next year was dishonest and the generals were not giving Congress their true advice.  

CBS NewsRep. Paul Ryan: GOP can work with Democrats, sometimesThe Oshkosh NorthwesternHouse Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is applauded by the members of audience at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Ryan, a potential pick to join Mitt Romney's presidential ticket, ...Ryan expects mandate for GOPPoliticoPossible VP pick Ryan pounds Obama on spendingSan Francisco...  

Following a stinging criticism of his federal budget proposal by President Obama, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan lashed back on Tuesday. “Disguised as deficit-reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country.  

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2012 — President Obama during his speech before the news editors luncheon hosted by the Associated Press zeroed in on the Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) budget proposal and the GOP candidates supporting it. The President ...  

Washington, DC—Joining a chorus of Catholic bishops, theologians, priests, and social justice leaders, nearly 90 Georgetown University faculty and administrators have called Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) to task for his misuse of Catholic ...  

Ryan was invited to deliver the address by former first lady Nancy Reagan, although Mrs. Reagan was unable to attend the speech per her doctor’s orders that she stay home and watch the speech from there. Fred Ryan, chairman of the Board of Trustees at ...  

Ryan got a friendly reception from the audience. Notably absent, however, was Nancy Reagan, 90, who usually attends appearances at the library by prominent speakers. John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation ...  

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan predicted Tuesday that November’s elections could bring a broad mandate for the Republican Party to enact aggressive reforms to the nation’s finances. In a nearly 30-minute speech at the Ronald Reagan ...  

(CBS News) Former first lady Nancy Reagan broke some of her ribs in a fall earlier this year and is recovering at her Southern California home, the head of the foundation named for President Ronald Reagan said. John Heubusch, executive director ...  

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the man who would turn Medicare into a voucher plan that would leave the nation’s seniors to fend for themselves in their old age, can’t seem to make up his mind when it comes to his philosophical ...  

Higher borrowing, too. In three and a half years, debt held by the public grew by roughly $4.5 trillion – that’s a 70 percent increase. Our debt is projected to get much worse, spiraling out of control in the years ahead. This bleak outlook is ...  

SIMI VALLEY, CALIF. — Republicans can work with Democrats. At least some of them. That was the assessment Tuesday of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who told a sold-out audience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that some ...  

The fight is led by U.S. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, a man with a driving desire to destroy Medicare as we have had it since 1965. Please join with and support AARP in defense of Medicare. Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Harry Truman ...  

Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's very serious intellectual leader on budget issues, has penned a Wisconsin State Journal op-ed on the future his state's 2012 college graduates face. Ryan's piece oozes with concern over student loan debt ...  

Guests on the Sunday political talk shows include Rep. Paul Ryan to discuss the budget debate on Meet the Press and Fox News Sunday and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will face off on ABC’s This Week. Other topics across the shows include the NATO Summit in Chicago and the G-8 Summit at Camp David. Read full article >>  

This weekend students across the country will attend commencement ceremonies to celebrate an important milestone in their lives: graduating college. But after three and a half years of slump and uncertainty, the Class of 2012 faces a competitive ...  

On Thursday, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., visited the Washington Examiner for a meeting with the editorial board. What follows is a transcript of the wide-ranging discussion, on topics including tax and spending policy ...  

It failed 58-41. Five Republicans (Scott Brown [MA], Susan Collins [ME], Dean Heller [NV], Rand Paul [KY] and Olympia Snowe [ME]) rejected that bill. For his part, Heller (in a tight reelection race with Rep. Shelley Berkley) said: “Today’s votes were ...  

Asked what he would be willing to give up to address the U.S. debt crisis, Rep. Paul Ryan stood his ground Tuesday and insisted it was Democrats who needed to cede ground. “I’m not interested in negotiating with myself on television. It’s futile, in ...  

On April 26, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan delivered the 2012 Whittington Lecture at Georgetown University focused on his 2013 budget and its implications for poverty programs and the poor. That budget has now passed the House of Representatives.  

Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House budget committee and a potential running mate for Mitt Romney on the GOP presidential ticket, urged Congress to look beyond party labels as lawmakers scour the country searching for a bipartisan solution to a burgeoning financial crisis,...  

Paul Ryan is the latest rising GOP star to make the pilgrimage to the Reagan library, where the House Budget Committee chairman delivered an address Tuesday night. When Rubio and then Christie took the podium in August and September ...  

House Budget Commitee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) says that his plan to slash government spending on programs for the poor while increasing defense spending and giving tax cuts to the wealthy would actually “prevent austerity.” NBC’s David ...  

You can hardly blame him. For the next few months, anyone remotely speculated to be on Mitt Romney's short list for vice president will be asked to answer the same questions about the process, often many times over in a single day. Paul Ryan ...  

Representative Paul Ryan took on President Obama’s budget Tuesday afternoon, in remarks at the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s tax summit in New York. With Bush sitting in the front row, Ryan argued that the budget proposed by Obama ...  

And ever since O rolled out his new “Forward” campaign slogan that was supposed to be more hope and change if you just give me four more years, it’s really just his latest tactic to put blinders on the voters in the election. His sleight ...  

In this Feb. 17, 2012, file photo House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, walk towards the House floor on Capitol Hill in February 2012.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)  

"As a Catholic holding public office" trying to conform his work to Catholic "social doctrine as best I can make of it", Ryan presented a vision that would be far more effective in helping the poor than current federal policies that have prevailed for decades.  

Paul Ryan (R-WI) defended his budget's major cuts to food stamps outside a town hall on Friday, telling ThinkProgress that 'we think you have to get savings in some of these ... At nearly every stop, Ryan noted that one in six Americans currently live ...  

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, provoked some angry push-back when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the U.S. budget fiscally sound but also morally sound. In an interview with the Christian ...  

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) chairman of the House Budget Committee, provoked some angry pushback when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the U.S. budget fiscally sound but also morally sound. In an interview with the Christian ...  

Since President Obama took office, the GOP has done nothing but make life extremely difficult for the poor and middle class in this country. First, they attack the Unions and their ability to collectively bargain, then they go after women...  

The only really interesting vote was on Rep. Paul Ryan's budget, the one that the House passed and that Mitt Romney has endorsed. It failed 58-41. Five Republicans (Scott Brown [MA], Susan Collins [ME], Dean Heller [NV], Rand Paul [KY] and ...  

Republican chairmanship term limits are bringing a dilemma for the party in the next Congress: whether to break the rules for a promising intellectual leader of the party while denying his ambitious colleagues the same opportunity. Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman ...  

So says former welfare-recipient Star Parker. "When you tell a poor mother that, to qualify for her check, she must demonstrate she is single, not working and has no savings, what are the chances she'll get married, look for a job and put money in the bank?  

Bill Clinton began playing a role in presidential politics 40 years ago when he ran Democratic nominee George McGovern’s Texas operation in the Democrats’ ill-fated 1972 campaign. As a candidate, as a strategist and advocate (for his wife in ...  

It all started with a fantasy about noodling for catfish with Paul Ryan.At her office in Chicago, Emily Zanotti, 30, a conservative political consultant, was reading Monday's New York Times profile of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan that mentioned his love of hunting catfish with his bare hands.The image of Paul Ryan "standing half naked in a river"--as she envisioned it--gave Zanotti an idea.Using ...  

Even in breaking up with his first love, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, was true to her philosophy. Mr. Ryan, author of the House budget plan that would devastate the poor and middle class (he said it was informed by his Catholic beliefs), is ...  

Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wis), chairman of the House budget committee, provoked some angry push back when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the US budget fiscally sound but also morally sound. In a CBN interview, Ryan said he ...  

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Friday that the Obama campaign's new website — which uses a fictionalized woman named Julia to illustrate how the president's policies help female voters — is "creepy" and "demeaning." “It suggests that this woman can’t go anywhere in life without Barack Obama’s government-centered society. It’s kind of demeaning to her,” Ryan said during a constituent meeting in Wisconsin, the National...  

Not quite, says New York magazine reporter Jonathan Chait. He argues that Paul Ryan's political ... Voter fraud is almost non-existent in the U.S. but conservatives continue to brandish it as a major threat, in order to advance voting policies that many ...  

The Republican Party of Texas has snared Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as a main speaker at its state convention being held in Fort Worth. Ryan will address the thousands of delegates and guests on Saturday, June 9. Paul is the author of "Path to Prosperity ...  

Yeah, he's totally not lying about "rejecting" Ayn Rand's moral views: Steve Benen also digs up this gem of a quote: [Y]ou can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand ...  

ThePlumLineGS GOP Rep. Tom Cole speaks the truth: "Paul Ryan effectively captured the Republican candidates." http://t.co/kK5S5qfM downwithtyranny Paul Ryan, a cousin by marriage to the most reactionary-- and corrupt-- Blue Dog in Washington, Dan Boren of Oklahoma.  

CNN - Found 1 hour agoToday on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin apologized for his critical remarks of the Pentagon’s budget proposal saying, “I was clumsy in how I was describing the point I was trying to make.” A highlighted excerpt is below, and a full transcript ... Rep. Ryan apologizes for comment about general - CNN Ryan: I 'misspoke' on...  

The following excerpts come from an op-ed by William McGurn from the April 30 issue of the Wall Street Journal. Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: "We believe that Social ...  

It may come as a surprise that President Obama and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., are pushing the same target rate for curbing annual federal spending on Medicare. Each would set it at half a percentage point higher than the growth rate of the economy -- the gross domestic product. Looking at their plans in more detail, however, the practical effects are likely to be very different ...  

COMMENTARY | It seems everyone is taking sides on the issue of whether Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan would be a good vice-presidential candidate for Mitt Romney. Ryan, who also serves as the powerful chairman of the House Budget Committee, is an expert on the ...  

Following criticism from Catholic leaders, Rep. Paul Ryan's support of Ayn Rand's ideas is again under media scrutiny. Some reporters have referenced a Paul Ryan speech given in 2005 at an Atlas Society event, but the full audio of that speech has not been ...  

Poor, dumb Paul Ryan! History is full of jilted lovers and the stories are all the same. This one is a little different, however. Ryan can try to erase Ayn Rand from his life, but he will never be able to erase her from his legacy. You see, they ...  

Indeed, contrary to his image as a sober-sided deficit hawk, Jonathan Chait points out in an acerbic New York magazine profile, "Ryan was a staunch ally in Bush's profligacy, dissenting only to urge Bush to jack up the deficit even more." Specifically ...  

On CNN's State of the Union today, Congressman Paul Ryan admitted he spoke out of school when he claimed that military leaders did not support President Obama 's proposed budget for FY 2013. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that Ryan was essentially calling them liars. Ryan explained to Candy Crowley that he "misspoke" and that he "didn't mean to make that kind of an ...  

Paul Ryan's budget, and a cavalier attitude toward America's ... Krugman: I do a little bit of the math in "End This Depression Now!" and as best I can tell if we could not just rehire the ones we've fired but get back to the kind of normal job growth ...  

Read more about the change here. A new Internet ad by an underdog Republican is getting attention because it shows an actor pretending to urinate on an electric fence. In the ad, Roland Sledge, 66, a Houston energy lawyer running in the GOP primary for the ...  

Jonathan Chait, New York MagazineThe implosion of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign--the first implosion, before the weird resurrection and inevitable second implosion--came because he used four words: right-wing social engineering. He used the phrase, last May, to describe the Republican budget designed by GOP icon Paul Ryan. It was as if he had urinated on Ronald Reagan’s grave. Party leaders rounded on him. In Iowa, an angry voter...  

The internet meme that propelled Ryan Gosling to viral internet heartthrob status took a turn for the political this week, setting its hunky photo captioning prowess upon House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Both Twitter and Tumblr lit up with photos ...  

The New York Times profiles Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) noting he has become "perhaps the most influential policy maker in the Republican Party, its de facto head of economic policy, intent on a fundamental transformation of the federal government." "His prescriptions in the Republican budget plan he devised have become his party's marching orders: cut income tax rates and simplify the code, privatize Medicare, shrink the food-stamp and Medicaid...  

Why do lefties keep accusing Rep. Paul Ryan of making Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged required reading for his staff? Maybe because he said, "It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff," and now we can ...  

Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when ... "we in our generation have more and more come to consider the state as bountiful Uncle Sam," and that citizens justify what they get from the state by saying, "We got it coming to us."  

MUSKEGO, Wis. (WTW) — U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan is beginning two days of listening sessions in his southeastern Wisconsin district. The Republican been widely whispered about as a potential running mate to presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.  

Read more about the change here. A new Internet ad by an underdog Republican is getting attention because it shows an actor pretending to urinate on an electric fence. In the ad, Roland Sledge, 66, a Houston energy lawyer running in the GOP primary for the ...  

WASHINGTON -- There is something un-Christian about the Gospel According to Paul Ryan. So, at least, says Ryan's Catholic Church. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody this month, Ryan, the author of the House Republican ...  

Republican budget architect Rep. Paul Ryan did not miss a beat when asked at a town hall meeting if he would support closing corporate tax loopholes to pay for keeping student loan interest rates low. "Nope" came flying out of his mouth almost ...  

The first detail is this: Ryan roams the halls listening of Congress listening to (left-wing) anarchist band, Rage Against The Machine. That might shock fans of Ryan or Rage. Later in the story we also learn that he listens to Led Zeppelin. The second ...  

But those who know him cannot seem to dislike him. “I’m stunned by how oblivious he is to the pain his policies would cause people,” said David R. Obey, a Democrat from Wisconsin who jousted often with his downstate colleague before retiring from the ...